tjosinga / ubbparser

A Ruby Gem which parses ubb code to html.

UBBParser

A Ruby Gem which parses ubb code to html. After installing the gem use the following code:

require 'ubbparser'
UBBParser.parse("This is an [b]example[/b]")
# Result => "This is an <b>example</b>"

The parse method allow a second parameter parse_options. It's an hash containing a few options.

• :convert_newlines => A boolean whether newlines should be convert into <br /> tags (default: true).

• :protect_email => A boolean whether email addresses should be protected from spoofing using embedded JavaScript (default: true).

• :class_xxx => A string with css class(es) that are embedded in the html attribute class='' for the tag xxx. Not all tags supports this.

  Example:

    require 'ubbparser'
    UBBParser.parse("Check the website [url]http://ubbparser.mojura.nl[/url]", {:class_url => "my_url_class"})
    # Result => "Check the website <a href='http://ubbparser.mojura.nl' class='my_url_class'>http://ubbparser.mojura.nl</a>"
  

More (RDoc) documentation can be found on http://ubbparser.mojura.nl.